Setting up of the Tourism Statistical Information System (Database and National Intranet) of the Ministry of Tourism and Handicraft (MTA)

Full description of the project

The objective of this contract is to improve the steering capacity of the Algerian tourism economy through the implementation of a tourism data warehouse, integrating existing data and allowing the integration of other data.

This objective is included in the master plan for tourism development (SDAT, see www.mta.gouv.dz) of the MTA. The MTA also needs to have a statistical system as recommended by the UNWTO.

The project aims to implement a statistical information system for tourism in its entirety:

• Creation of a tourism data warehouse or bank;
• Setting up a network infrastructure allowing the collection and dissemination of data;
• Implementation of tools and applications to build and optimize this data warehouse (statistics, reporting, dashboards/surveys, analysis, data mining).

This system will be deployed in a data center to be set up at the MTA and managed by the Sub-Directorate for Information and Statistics (S/DIS).

The following general macro-planning illustrates the “tourism database” with its components of data repository, data recovery from old systems (Excel files, SPSS, paper reports), and complementary data within the new decision-making information system.